As a player who has played a fair amount of Tempered Steel, Esper decks can almost never beat it. The mana is too suspect and esper decks tend to be slow as a result. However, Tempered Steel cannot almost never beat an ancient grudge, and boardwipes.
What do you guys think about Foil Snapcaster Mage in the long term? I managed to pick one up for EDH, and I'm curious as to how everyone think it'll turn out. It's dropped from release, which is what's gotten me worried.
I'm running 3 Opals and I constantly draw multiple. I find it hard to believe you run 4 and it happens to you once in 40 games. I'm interested if anyone has results with Chimeric Mass,.
Terrastodon is known as Nasty Rasty, not exactly sure why Acidic Slime is known as Slime-Time, hurr hur.
We also say "spin the top" for Sensei's Divining Top as mentioned above
While you generally are in a disadvantage in most formats, M12 is fast enough that decks can win without bombs, as if you didn't draw their bomb.
Also, at what point in your first pack do you decide what two colors you will go into? For example, if you see a Djinn of Wishes p1p1 and pick it, and you see a stingerfling spider p1p2 and pick, then see a chandra's outrage p1p3, with the rest of the pack having garbage and say... a Skywinder Drake, would you pick the outrage or the drake.
From your post, it seems you do not understand signaling. If you pick a p1p1 Djinn of Wishes, but there was for example a Volcanic Dragon in the pack, you don't go into red p1p3 with outrage because chances are, the person next to you will go red, because passing volcanic dragon is signaling that your not running red. Because of this, when the person next to you passed cards to you p2, there will only be inferior red cards because the person passing to you has already taken the better card(s). While a p1p2 stingerfling spider doesn't seem so appealing, you have to take note of what you've been passing. Chances are, you passed some pretty good red cards
Also, if you spalsh for doom blade or a chandra, how many off color lands would you put in (assuming no manalith) and are you required to have manaliths?
Which Chandra? This is unclear. It depends on the number of cards you are splashing, on how early you want to play said card on your curve. Manaliths are definitively helpful, and while you aren't necessarily required to have, it is recommended to have 1-2 of them.
Say you have pick a Fireball p2p1, and you are in WB. Would you splash or drop your weaker color if you see signals later in the pack that red is open?
Fireball is very splashable, along with many other red cards. I don't see any reason you would drop a color for Fireball, while going into a third color isn't neccesarily better then picking cards for the colors your already in, even if it is indeed inferior.
If you pick a Serra Angel p1p1, then p1p2, you see an oblivion ring and a Chandra's Outrage, would you pick the oblivion ring to stay on-color, or outrage and commit to RW?
I don't see ANY reason you would pick Chandra's Outrage p1p2. Not only would you send a HUGE white signal to your right, oblivion ring is infinitely better.
You are in RW, p2p6. Red has been going dry for the last 15 picks. You only have around 5 quality red cards that you would have been playing in your main deck (No "bombs"). You see that your opponent has been passing you decent black commons this pack. Would you switch to RB? How about if you say, see a Sengir Vampire p3p1 and no good red commons?
Again, depends on what the people sitting next to you are signaling...Also you should've switched into black earlier if red is been dry for the last 15 picks, and splashed red for a WB-splash red deck.
Are late pack passes from your right indicators of what color they are in? How about early-mid passes?
Uhh, clarification is needed, next.
Is Pentavus considered a bomb? If so, how... I really am just not seeing much value in it.
Pentavus is as bomby as ever. He wins the game when you drop him, as if your opponent doesn't have day of judgement, they just lose. With technically infinite blockers abusing Pentavus, they really can't win the game. Pentavus can make a un-killable army as well, and I don't see how it wouldn't be considered a bomb.
What, in your opinion, is the best color 2 combo in m12 draft?
(Note: I may not be the best drafter, just average. My responses are to the best of my knowledge, some things may not be correct in others opinion, however, please keep it to yourself.)
First card in my very first pack, and have been collecting since. My bear deck featuring 24 BEARS (G1 - 2/2) and cards like overrun was built because of it, and whenever one of my friends gets one, they give it to me =D.
SP Tropical Island
Sword of Light and Shadow
Pile B:
NM Wasteland
SP Wasteland
Pernicious Deed
Nevinyrral's Disk
Pile A
2x Gravecrawler
Snapcaster Mage
Misty Rainforest
Jace, Memory Adept
Pile B
Ex Mana Crypt
Dust Bowl
MP Maze of Ith
3x Snapcaster
Sword of Light and Shadow
Pile B:
SP Polluted Delta
SP Force of Will
Pile A
Scrubland (NM)
Pile B
Force of Will (NM)
Mental Misstep
are another couple that can be added to the above list.
Pile A:
2x Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon
1x Kira, Great Glass Spinner
1x Dark Depths
1x Gideon Jura
1x Gifts Ungiven
1x Champion of the Parish
1x Teferi, Mage of Zhalfir
Pile B:
1x Foil Snapcaster Mage
1x Mind over Matter
Pile A seems to be loosing a little value, I'm curious!
Acidic Slime is known as Slime-Time, hurr hur.
We also say "spin the top" for Sensei's Divining Top as mentioned above
P1p1 Foil Chandra the Firebrand
P2p1 [CARD]Garruk, Primal Hunter
[/CARD]p3p1 Grave Titan
In bold-
(Note: I may not be the best drafter, just average. My responses are to the best of my knowledge, some things may not be correct in others opinion, however, please keep it to yourself.)
First card in my very first pack, and have been collecting since. My bear deck featuring 24 BEARS (G1 - 2/2) and cards like overrun was built because of it, and whenever one of my friends gets one, they give it to me =D.